This is an analysis of the poem Spring Song that begins with:
ALL winter through I sat alone,
Doors barred and windows shuttered fast, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaaa cdcdebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11110101 11000111 110100001 10010001 110011011 11010101 11110110 110011111 11010111 11011111 11010101 01011101 10110111 11110010 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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